Wintermint
#94d2bf
A cyan that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#94d2bf
RGB
148, 210, 191
OKLCh
81.6% 0.069 173.5°
CIELAB (D50)
79.6, -23.6, 2.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 30.9; on black, Lc -71.9. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 18.1 and 19.1 and 30.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.72:1 — fails AA
Black text
12.23:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at12.23:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#458271 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#94d2bf
protanopia
#ccccbf · ΔE00 18.1
deuteranopia
#c2c2c0 · ΔE00 19.1
tritanopia
#b7b7ff · ΔE00 30.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPop Shop at ΔE00 0.661: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pop ShopΔE00 0.661 · #93d4c0
- Larimar GreenΔE00 1.331 · #93d3bc
- Isabella’s AquaΔE00 1.552 · #9bd8c4
- Apple II BlueΔE00 1.591 · #93d6bf
- Opal TurquoiseΔE00 1.775 · #96d1c3
- ChlorideΔE00 1.781 · #93d8c2
- Pageant GreenΔE00 1.947 · #99dac5
- Light Capri GreenΔE00 2.062 · #8bd4c3
- Thermal AquaΔE00 2.414 · #9ccebe
- Mint TwistΔE00 2.438 · #98cbba
- Aqua GlowΔE00 2.526 · #9dd5c8
- Blue FrostingΔE00 2.529 · #86d2c1
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.